From Goodreads.com: "It’s no secret
that the marriages of monarchs are often made in hell. Here are some of
the most spectacular mismatches in five hundred years of royal
history....

In a world where many kings, queens, and
princes lacked nothing but true love, marital mismatches could bring out
the baddest, boldest behavior in the bluest of bloodlines. Margaret
Tudor, her niece Mary I, and Catherine of Braganza were desperately in
love with chronically unfaithful husbands, but at least they weren’t
murdered by them, as were two of the Medici princesses were. King
Charles II’s beautiful, high-spirited sister “Minette” wed Louis XIV’s
younger brother, who wore more makeup and perfume than she did. Forced
to wed her boring, jug-eared cousin Ferdinand, Marie of Roumania—a
granddaughter of Queen Victoria—proved herself one of the heroines of
World War I by using her prodigious personal charm to regain massive
amounts of land during the peace talks at Versailles.

Brimming
with outrageous real-life stories of royal marriages gone wrong, this is
an entertaining, unforgettable book of dubious matches doomed from the
start."

My Two Cents:

"Inglorious Marriages" is the new release by wonderful author, Leslie Carroll. I always look forward to her releases but I was especially excited about this book because the subject seemed so fascinating to me and I was very happy to be proven correct. In this book, we see that the truth is sometimes stranger and more fabulous than fiction. The author uses this book in order to tackle some of the strangest, most interesting, most memorable, and craziest marriages of royalty throughout time. Some of the stories I was more familiar with than others but I enjoyed both revisiting and learning about new stories. This book makes for very entertaining nonfiction.

It's definitely the writing of the book that makes this book special. Carroll definitely has a gift for words and is able to breathe new life into some great stories from from history. I also really liked the way that Carroll was able to make this book incredibly entertaining. If you think that all history books are boring, this book will definitely show you otherwise.

Even though some of the stories were not new to me, I loved reading Carroll's take on the stories. Each chapter focuses on a new couple and each story is filled with fantastic love stories and a whole lot of drama! I always like when I can learn something from a book. Overall, if you're interested in reading about royal marriages that you will be very happy that you never had to live through, then read this book. It will definitely make you thankful for your own situation!

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